All hell breaks loose if Barbaro is scratched. Pimlico loses millions and millions of betting pool money, america is denied a triple crown shot and the vet comes under intense PERSONAL scrutiny.

Imagine if you were the vet who scracthed Barbaro and it comes out that nothing is wrong with him....you have firebombs thrown thru your windows at your home. You probably get fired because you cost Maryland millions of dollars of revenue.

I'm not sure how a vet can look at a horse and determine if he's ok or not to run unless the injury is so obvious that anyone can see it. There's no time to get out a machine and do an MRI on the horse to see if its all ok. You can just go on what you see and if the horse is standing and bouncing around you just assume he's ok.